Some generations are sacrifice generations. Sometimes they give their blood in war, sometimes they are asked to waste their lives away as slaves in peace. Having little agency or opportunity to change things. Gen X, Millenials and Gen Z havelived lives like these in the face of boomer power. Numbers always bring power. This is not a criticism of boomers, it's not their fault - it's just the way things have been.
Around 2005 I had the ephinany that took me from a Thatcherite technologist (something like Musk) to something akin to where you now stand. I had little idea it would be so long before I started seeing people who had the same realisation. It's a long lonely road. Even now, you who are fresh to it, look ahead and see how far there is to go. Yes it's still very far, even after all these years. My advice to you is this:
This is a marathon not a sprint (I expect 10-15 years more) - Don't burn yourself out and don't sow your seeds on barren ground. We have clearly tuned a corner now with some of the required medicine being administered in the US - but people here can't take the full dose until they have grown accustomed to it's effects. In the mean time nurture the flame. Things are obviously going to get very bad but as that quote (by someone who I can't remember) said 'There is a lot of ruin in a nation'.
Many people don't understand you yet - you can't make them. They need to continue making their mistakes - be that trusting Reform, trusting Uni party or whatever their current kink is. There is nothing you can do except let them be. They will not be convinced except by failure.
'For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven'
Until destiny comes calling all you can do is preapre. And I have to say you are doing a pretty good job of that so far, keep it up!
I agree with some aspects of your 'Nationalism' as in we need to get muscular about defending our true culture, including Christianity in my view, and deportations definitely need to happen. I fail to see how Liz Truss caused damage akin to Rachel from accounts as she was shafted by the BofE and the markets at the behest of the usual suspects. Low taxes create growth the exact opposite of the current mobs thinking only now we are borrowing to spaff it up the wall on the public sector. She had the right instincts just not the steel to carry them out. Reform need to resist the calls for a merger with the Tories as that would be a disaster and they also need to resist the drift to the centre. Currently they are our only hope and whilst we have Trump in the Whitehouse, remaining on the right of centre should be achievable for Reform if they hold their nerve.
Agree with what you say whilst also thinking we can't leapfrog to that endpoint; we need to move through the current group think and move the Overton window. The herd will eventually change direction.
Thank you for all you do. Your writing has convinced me to seriously consider joining Homeland. I don't know how you keep up this work rate. I wonder if there are a couple of typos in this article?
Did you intend to say "We must operate on the presumption that nothing is reversible,* or should that have been "nothing is irreversible"?
In "The Boriswave of immigration tipped the balance where we are not heading into existential crisis territory" had you intended to say that we *are* heading into existential crisis territory?
Struck by your FAFO comment. While the philosophical principle requires a tome to elucidate, what it basically means is that 'might is right'. You also imply that politics must take account of the fait accompli (Realpolitik). If we take both ideas further back, Britain and France FA'd in Palestine and they are now FO. Furthermore both are faced with the reality of mass migration which is destroying their polities. Can they do anything about it?
Speaking from the US, most anti israel people are angry that we a) fund the everliving fuck out of israel and b) they have their hands in nearly every single political pie here. And also? Israel's mossad has stolen intel and other things from us again and again.
"Where do they think the Jews they hate so much will go?"
Back to Europe or the USA. Most aren't Orthodox and couldn't give a stuff about their history. But maybe, like in the 1930s, indigenous Europeans are as antisemitic as they ever were.
"You have to start with the basics such as water and sanitation, moving up to education and health, and build up from there."
Well absolutely not. The only acceptable role of a state is national defence. The rest should be managed by private entities or perhaps some locally managed organizations.
The state running stuff like healthcare or water or education is one of the main reasons we are in this sorry state of affairs.
As for the "boomers" having stolen the future to their kids, i disagree. It was the state and the parasites doing that.
Some generations are sacrifice generations. Sometimes they give their blood in war, sometimes they are asked to waste their lives away as slaves in peace. Having little agency or opportunity to change things. Gen X, Millenials and Gen Z havelived lives like these in the face of boomer power. Numbers always bring power. This is not a criticism of boomers, it's not their fault - it's just the way things have been.
Around 2005 I had the ephinany that took me from a Thatcherite technologist (something like Musk) to something akin to where you now stand. I had little idea it would be so long before I started seeing people who had the same realisation. It's a long lonely road. Even now, you who are fresh to it, look ahead and see how far there is to go. Yes it's still very far, even after all these years. My advice to you is this:
This is a marathon not a sprint (I expect 10-15 years more) - Don't burn yourself out and don't sow your seeds on barren ground. We have clearly tuned a corner now with some of the required medicine being administered in the US - but people here can't take the full dose until they have grown accustomed to it's effects. In the mean time nurture the flame. Things are obviously going to get very bad but as that quote (by someone who I can't remember) said 'There is a lot of ruin in a nation'.
Many people don't understand you yet - you can't make them. They need to continue making their mistakes - be that trusting Reform, trusting Uni party or whatever their current kink is. There is nothing you can do except let them be. They will not be convinced except by failure.
'For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven'
Until destiny comes calling all you can do is preapre. And I have to say you are doing a pretty good job of that so far, keep it up!
I agree with some aspects of your 'Nationalism' as in we need to get muscular about defending our true culture, including Christianity in my view, and deportations definitely need to happen. I fail to see how Liz Truss caused damage akin to Rachel from accounts as she was shafted by the BofE and the markets at the behest of the usual suspects. Low taxes create growth the exact opposite of the current mobs thinking only now we are borrowing to spaff it up the wall on the public sector. She had the right instincts just not the steel to carry them out. Reform need to resist the calls for a merger with the Tories as that would be a disaster and they also need to resist the drift to the centre. Currently they are our only hope and whilst we have Trump in the Whitehouse, remaining on the right of centre should be achievable for Reform if they hold their nerve.
Agree with what you say whilst also thinking we can't leapfrog to that endpoint; we need to move through the current group think and move the Overton window. The herd will eventually change direction.
Thank you for all you do. Your writing has convinced me to seriously consider joining Homeland. I don't know how you keep up this work rate. I wonder if there are a couple of typos in this article?
Did you intend to say "We must operate on the presumption that nothing is reversible,* or should that have been "nothing is irreversible"?
In "The Boriswave of immigration tipped the balance where we are not heading into existential crisis territory" had you intended to say that we *are* heading into existential crisis territory?
A good article with good points. I'm not really sure about Christianity being misogynist though.
Struck by your FAFO comment. While the philosophical principle requires a tome to elucidate, what it basically means is that 'might is right'. You also imply that politics must take account of the fait accompli (Realpolitik). If we take both ideas further back, Britain and France FA'd in Palestine and they are now FO. Furthermore both are faced with the reality of mass migration which is destroying their polities. Can they do anything about it?
What an excellent article, Pete. Perfectly expresses how I feel. If only we had leaders with the moral courage to say what you way.
Speaking from the US, most anti israel people are angry that we a) fund the everliving fuck out of israel and b) they have their hands in nearly every single political pie here. And also? Israel's mossad has stolen intel and other things from us again and again.
"Where do they think the Jews they hate so much will go?"
Back to Europe or the USA. Most aren't Orthodox and couldn't give a stuff about their history. But maybe, like in the 1930s, indigenous Europeans are as antisemitic as they ever were.
"You have to start with the basics such as water and sanitation, moving up to education and health, and build up from there."
Well absolutely not. The only acceptable role of a state is national defence. The rest should be managed by private entities or perhaps some locally managed organizations.
The state running stuff like healthcare or water or education is one of the main reasons we are in this sorry state of affairs.
As for the "boomers" having stolen the future to their kids, i disagree. It was the state and the parasites doing that.